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Independent samples t-test

The independent samples t-test is a parametric hypothesis test that determines whether the means of two independent, unrelated groups differ significantly on a continuous outcome variable. Derived from Gosset's 1908 t-distribution, it is one of the most widely used inferential tests in social, behavioral, biomedical, and experimental sciences.

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Independent Samples t-test
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  • Student (W. S. Gosset) (1908). The probable error of a mean. Biometrika, 6(1), 1–25. · DOI 10.1093/biomet/6.1.1
  • Field, A. (2018). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (5th ed.). SAGE Publications. · ISBN 978-1526419521
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